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10:07:52 PM Unearth your inner paleontologist at John Janzen
Edmonton Journal

Jurassic John Janzen Ever wonder what it'd be like to be a paleontologist? It's easy to pretend during a dino-mad morning with your 3-5 year old at the John Janzen Nature Centre (edmonton.ca/attractions_recreation/attractions/john-janzen-nature-centr [more]

9:24:31 PM Could PBS Kids Barney be an extinct T. rex – in a good mood?
Christian Science Monitor - USA

By Stephanie Hanes, Correspondent / April 9, 2012 A Beijing Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology concept drawing from remains found of Y. huali made us wonder if the big fuzzy – extinct – T. rex was somehow related to the PBS Ki [more]

6:26:02 PM Drilling Into the History of Tube Worms
Wired News - USA

The armored machaerid worms of the Paleozoic are one example, but paleontologists also know a bit about tube-dwelling worms thanks to the homes some prehistoric polychaetes left behind. And, as researchers Jordi Martinell, Michal Kowalewski, ... [more]

4:10:20 PM Mrs. Ples: A Hominid with an Identity Crisis
Hirshhorn

Paleoanthropologists agree that Mrs. Ples is the most complete, undistorted A. africanus skull ever found, but they quibble over whether the fossil is .... [more]

2:49:48 PM MSU chosen to take part in Washington D.C.'s Folk Life Festival
KAJ News - Kalispell,MT,USA

BOZEMAN- Montana State University's paleontology program will be featured on a national stage this summer. MSU is one of just 21 land-grant universities chosen to be represented in this year's Folk Life Festival in Washington DC and MSU officials cho [more]

1:37:49 PM Museum of Geology hosts dinosaur event
Rapid City Journal

The child-focused event is sponsored by the university's Museum of Geology and its Paleontology Club. Children up to age 12 can dress up like paleontologists, pose with a tyrannosaurus rex, paint a dinosaur egg and get a temporary dinosaur tattoo. [more]

6:54:44 AM T. rex Kin: Largest Known Feathered Dinosaur
Fars News Agency - Tehran,Iran

"The feathers of Yutyrannus were simple filaments," explained Professor Xu Xing of Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, the lead author of the study. "They were more like the fuzzy down of a modern baby chick than the [more]

6:38:25 AM Gigantic Relative Of T. Rex, Yutyrannus Huali, Is Largest Known Feathered
Asian Scientist Magazine

Asian Scientist Magazine By Juliana Chan | Featured Research Paleontologists have discovered three specimens of a new tyrannosauroid from Northeastern China that had bird-like feathers. AsianScientist (Apr. 9, 2012) – Chinese and Canadian paleontolog [more]

2:30:04 AM Students unearth dinosaur
DeSoto Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA

They were some of the same students who had worked at Coon Creek, an paleontological dig site in McNairy County owned by the Memphis Pink Palace Family of Museums. It was May 2011 when the geology students from the University of Tennessee at Martin . [more]

2:29:48 AM Easter, Intelligent Design and the Pope
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Apparently they don't like Penn paleontologist Peter Dodson or Philadelphia's Institute for Religion and Science. That the folks at DI don't like me goes without saying. They take me to task for saying the Pope is okay with evolution, more or less. [more]



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